Music anthropologist and writer, he has carried out field research in central Africa, where he lived with the Baka Pygmies and other forest peoples, whose music, rituals and survival strategies he has been studying for more than a decade.

Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/rainforest-pygmies/ Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin.The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka and the other Pygmy peoples live, is 16:49.Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).